Israeli officials say Netanyahu will deliver speech to Congress as planned

By HERB KEINON, SAM SOKOL, JPOST

Despite continuing and mounting opposition to his plans to address the US Congress on March 3, including from American Jewish organizational leaders, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “determined to go” and make the case against an Iranian nuclear deal, a senior government official said Sunday.

The official’s comments came amid speculation that Netanyahu might, at the last minute, find a reason to put off the trip to Washington until after the March 17 elections and avoid exacerbating tensions with the Obama administration.

Netanyahu, however, seems to feel that the speech against an Iranian nuclear deal cannot be delayed until after the elections and the establishment of a new government, because by then it would be too late.

He alluded to this at Sunday’s cabinet meeting, saying that US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks over the weekend and announced that they intended to complete a framework agreement by the end of March. It is precisely to warn against that agreement that Netanyahu has indicated he cannot put off the visit, and that there is a timetable that cannot be ignored.

February 9, 2015 | 1 Comment »

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  1. Netanyahu is right to insist on fulfilling the invitation of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives to address the two house of the US Congress early next month. The prime issue he will talk about is the need for the USA to avoid negotiating any deal with the ayatollist government of Iran which would give that country a green light to proceed with nuclear enrichment that is the unavoidable stepping stone to development of nuclear weapons.

    Netanyahu, I think, will appropriately ignore the mounting squeaks mouthed by various supposedly-Jewish rats both in the USA and in Israel, claiming to represent Jewish opinion, who have crawled out of their holes in the woodwork to spread lying alarms that for Netanyahu to show up for that congressional address would poison Israel’s relations with the United States.

    Those rats represent nothing and nobody over here. As for Joe Biden, who, will not show up to take his place as President of the United States Senate, “so as not to interfere with Israeli politics”, he did in fact meet with one of Netanyahu’s political enemies in the Knesset. Subtlety was never one of Biden’s long suits, and even a lot of Democrats think of him as little more than Obama’s talking dummy.

    In any case, if Netanyahu were in fact to reverse himself now, caving in to such cheap-shot pressure, it would destroy all vestiges of his own reputation. And I do not think he would do that, and especially in consideration of what could happen to Israel if Iran is given the nuclear enrichment green light that the vile John Kerry — the self-serving liar of the Vietnam swift boats — wants to cook up like his boss, the Neville Chamberlin of our era, who equates Islam with the Christianity that prevails across this once-great United States of America.

    And don’t any of you tell me that the present leader of the United States of America is superior in any way — or even equal — to his counterpart leaders of Russia and China. They at least have integrity in regard to the interests of their own countries, which has been greatly lacking over here since Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States.

    Arnold Harris
    Mount Horeb WI